A quick guide to the Wirral by Wirral360.com photographer.....Dave Hughes

The Wirral is a peninsula in North West of England bounded by the River Dee to the west and the River Mersey to the east. It is administered by Wirral Borough Council. If you have ever heard the famous song by Gerry Marsden "Ferry cross the Mersey" then i guess you could say we are cross the Mersey.

At the end of the twelfth century, Birchen Head Priory stood on a lonely headland of birch trees, facing open countryside and surrounded by the Mersey. It was from here, Merseyside's oldest building, that Benedictine monks operated the first Mersey ferry in 1330, having been granted a passage to Liverpool by a charter from Edward III.

The original ferry service, now famous throughout the world, put Wirral on the map as part of the King's highway, yet for centuries the peninsula remained a cluster of small holdings and hamlets. It wasn't until the 1820s that steam-powered boats improved communication and opened up Wirral's Mersey coast for industrialisation.

What you see here, basically, are my holiday snaps.

I may have gone the extra mile to do them as panoramas, but they are more about capturing the moment, to remind me of what the places I visited were like, rather than some super-glossy work of art.

As such they are far from perfect, but I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.

Feel free to leave comments - any feedback welcome.

Dave Bowman is an award wiinning professional photographer based in the North East of Scotland, UK.

Specialising in art photography, he started capturing 360º photographs in 2015 and now runs a business focusing solely on 360º photography and the production of virtual tours.